iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The gvt might consider their own IT developers, which have had some clear successes. Register to vote is the one that comes to mind first. Does what it needs to, simple UI, doesn't need superfast connection to use, and survives the last minute rush. As far as I can tell it's quite secure too.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's a lovely long list…

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

3km walk this afternoon. It took a couple of hours, but it took about that long to do 2km earlier this week. I may have turned a corner mentally. Earlier this year 300m was my limit and I got used to thinking that was it. Now I know the local Co-op and back is not a problem and I can go further.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Now I'm wondering if the AI pushers are caught in the trap of a teenager desperate to get their parents to publicly forbid them doing something risky that they no longer want to do after weeks of whining and successful arguments.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The bank has corrected the spelling of my name again! I know because it has sent me a marketing email using, in irate parent style, both my given names in addressing me. I know what happens next—someone spots the discrepancy and restricts my accounts for possible money laundering… Bah😡

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Advice needed In the UK with urban foxes passing through the garden frequently particularly at night, but sometimes in the day. Yesterday C found a fox sitting on the workbench in the garage. Both surprised. He left the garage doors open and repaired the damaged door where it presumably got in.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Why does the icon for my clock app look like a laser pointer?

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Well it lets us know how they think businesses really work.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Joy. New improved android 17 stopped Duolingo from playing audio clips over Bluetooth in a timely manner. The solution? Involves turning developer mode on, exposing the phone's vitals to incautious poking, and poking it in the right place. Alt text has full instructions.

Turn off Bluetooth LE Audio Hardware Offload in your system's Developer Options to fix the current Duolingo conflict with Android 17 and wireless earbuds. Android 17 introduces a known framework bug where short-burst audio files—like Duolingo’s spoken phrases—fail to route to Bluetooth earbuds quickly enough, causing complete silence or cut-off words.1. Change the Android 17 Developer SettingsThis is the most successful community fix for Bluetooth audio clipping and cutting out on newer Android platforms:Open your phone's Settings menu.Scroll to the bottom and tap About phone.Tap Build number 7 times until you see a prompt saying you are a developer.Go back to the main Settings menu, tap System, and choose Developer options.Scroll down to find Disable Bluetooth LE audio hardware offload.Turn this toggle ON.Restart your phone for the system framework change to take effect.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

That's two. It's so long since I've done this😃 I only get to see the really bright ones as the city light pollution hides most of them. #Perseids

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This is as close as we got to totality. 91% coverage, I think.

Photo of a sliver of sun showing round the moon on a black background.f
Taken at 19:13 on August 12 2026 in Cambridge on a Nikon J1 f13 1/600s 110 zoom. This is a JPEG but I don't think there will be much more detail on the raw.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The sun returns. It's getting noticeably lighter and, I think, a little hotter again. Really showed that it's the direct radiation that makes you feel the heat more than the air temperature which didn't change so much. Now to see what I have on the camera.

Images of the eclipse made by gaps in tree leaves acting as pinhole cameras on a cream wall.
The shadow is interrupted by light cresents.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Don't about 35% of women who eat in the first trimester have a miscarriage? I'm old, we suspected, but we didn't know. And we didn't tell anyone until we were safely past the third month.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This is your chance to get a free copy of the The Martian if you have a UK Amazon account. It's a good read—I have had a copy for a long time and you could have one too.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I've not seen Nolan's film yet, but there is a passing mention that puzzles me. Did this horse fall over submerging the hidden Greeks? Because this is the mediteranian — tidal rise is about a foot and they would have known that. Niggle expressed and off my chest.

Tha Atlantic article says "Nolan’s horse rears upright rather than standing on four hooves. The unwieldy creature is discovered half-buried in the sand, and proves almost impossible for the Trojans to lug into the city. This cinematic prop is an extraordinary feat of engineering: It stands nearly 40 feet tall and took hundreds of people to drag up the beach. The physical horror of people being trapped inside as the seawater rises is brilliantly and terrifyingly evoked."

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I have a bowl of pineapple chunks, one of my tiny activia pots from the fridge, a paper cup of pretty hot tomato soup, a pre-packed cheese sandwich, and a dessert sized spoon,fork and knife to eat them with. It's not bad as a meal, but the physical logistics of eating it are going to be interesting.

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Spencer McDaniel @spencermcdaniel.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I have a master's degree in Ancient Greek and Roman Studies, I've studied the 'Odyssey' in Ancient Greek, and I've been writing about the ancient world for over a decade. This is my exhaustive review of Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey'. #Odyssey #classics talesoftimesforgotten.com/2026/07/23/a...

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An Ancient Historian's Breakdown of Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' - Tales of Times Forgotten

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is perhaps the most highly anticipated new film of the 2020s. It has already received near-universal acclaim from film critics and earned more at the box office in its ...

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

@ckshowalter.bsky.social I'm sorry if this is inappropriate, but might you have any pointers to people or organisations that could help Jessica? The babies are tiny but the only fosterer she has found will just take the kittens not their mama.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

That's another not-insignificant earthquake. I begining to wonder if the anomalous temperature changes in the atmosphere and oceans are altering the pressure enough to trigger some tectonic plates to release stress. I would have said nah, not enough, but this is not in normal ranges.

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Kristan Tetens @tetens.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Lloyd’s of London has commissioned a requiem mass from Manchester-based composer David Önaçto to memorialise the lives of enslaved Africans, with a libretto drawn from the Catholic requiem mass, documents in Lloyd’s own archive, and eighteenth-century legal testimony.

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Lloyd’s acknowledges historic role in slave trade with ne...

The commission is the company’s latest effort to recognise its involvement in insuring ships and slave owners, but such gestures also draw criticism

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 18/06/2026

Accurate.

Screenshot of a social media post by Angus McIntyre (@angusm@mastodon.social). The post humorously claims that the UK government's plan to teach 10 million British children how to use VPNs could become one of the largest IT education projects ever. It jokes that experts support the scheme because peer education and incentives will help it succeed, and includes a mock quote saying that, with the rise of autocratic governments worldwide, VPN literacy is more important than ever and that the project comes at the right time. The humour derives from the implication that government internet restrictions would encourage widespread VPN use among young people.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

i mean it seems easy, they'll eat anything

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Reading bad, but still lauded and recommended fan fiction was how I learnt to recognise that writing, even published best seller writing can be bad. And conversly that I can still enjoy it.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

My brain just made the connection between duchies having dukes and counties having counts. How did that parallel escape me for so long? And why now?

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

So I won't lose it. So I won't lose it. But I'd just like to say that there was a time when being active on discord and having a proton email address was regarded as the mark of a bad'un. I used to get my internet through Demon too.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

My daughter learns how to do things in Excel from YouTube. It seems to work for her. I spent a lot of my working life writing, and rewriting, numbered instructions on worksheets only to be told "I didn't understand 1 or 2 so I started at 3." Each to their own. My reference manuals stay in my CDH

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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Met Police will ask the CPS to consider charging up to 57 people & 20 companies over the Grenfell Tower fire Alleged offences include corporate & gross negligence manslaughter, misconduct in public office & fraud 72 people were killed in the disaster

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

If I were to be polled, I might very well say immigration was my top concern. I am deeply concerned that my government is constructing unfair procedures in the service of policies unsupported by evidence in an effort to attract racist voters. And yet my concern will be read as being one of them.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

"I complain a lot" was one of my job interview answers about dealing with stress. It's nice if you pretend to listen, but not essential.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Terracotta; the perfect medium for an archive. I must find out more about this comment.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Sob. Breakfast is last food apart from clear fluid until noonish tomorrow. I really fancied scrambled eggs on toast: until I'd made them and now I don't😢 Ah well, fruit tea here we come.

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

The limitations on violence established after World War II were not brought by pacifists or peaceniks but by literal old soldiers. They knew. They had seen.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Oh look, a dedicated vaccine FUD account.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Life tip: If you're feeling queasy, don't drink blue force Lucozade to stay hydrated. Oh, it works, but it's still blue when it comes back and that is very disturbing.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Bad immigration economics assumes every extra person is one less seat. Good economics notices they also bring a seat, a side dish, and demand for the bloke selling drinks. The first story is fear; the second is how economies work.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Argh! The over-wintering box moth have woken up and started munching.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

That feels like a big mis-step. It says out loud that the economy is what matters and that the economy isn't people and prices and availability, it's market numbers go up.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I've not been able to find my gotcha since before the great Christmas tidy up. (I've been ill and walking needs all my concentration, let alone cycling) So on Sunday I ordered a new one, that will be delivered tomorrow. Ta dah! The magic works.

A wrist band on the floor next to a cat cushion.
I have no idea how I have overlooked it for so long but the magic works.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Waves to @archive.org Hi do you have a donation method for UK donations?

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I have been awake and upright since 8:30 this morning. That's the first day without a nap since January 3rd. I don't think I'm going to last much longer though and we'll see if it was a mistake tomorrow. I did yomp nearly 500m through Addie's (chose wrong entrance) too.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Isn't this a telling aspiration? To want robots to look after your kids, so you can do stuff, rather than robots to do stuff, so you can spend time with your kids? The darkness inside these shrivelled men must be like a gaping unfillable void.

NOW - Musk: "My prediction is there'll be more robots than people... everyone on Earth is going to have one and going to want one... who wouldn't want a robot to... watch over your kids, take care of your pets... we are in the most interesting time in history."

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

In other words, this variation is the past tense of Basic Pattern 1.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

So nice to get a well packed book. Protected even if it does slide around under the gentle handling of the couriers. And this was a reduced clearance book! Thank you. @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social

A book wrapped in brown logoed paper from the Broken Binding on a red table cloth.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Sun steps up to protect Greenland.

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Doire @doiredoire.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

I thought this wasn't real, but I'm wrong. The odd look of the roofline on the building at the end is caused by perspective lining up another roof with the end wall.

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